CMRB News

Giorgia Dona gave a keynote paper titled ‘Transit migration and home-making: embodied and virtual belonging', at the conference Home for Refugee Children, Queen Mary University, the University of London in Paris, Geffrye Museum of the Home, and Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood, London, July, 2017

Giorgia Dona is a now member of the Independent Advisory Group on Country of Origin Information for the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, which reviews the UK Home Office country of origin reports.

The CMRB affiliated Master in Refugee Studies was recognised as 1+3 pathway of the Economic and Social Research Council ‘UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership’.

Issue 2 of the Feminist Dissent journal is out. The issue, edited by Nira Yuval-Davis and Nadje Al-Ali is based on some of the papers presented on the series of symposia on Gender and Fundamentalisms organised by CMRB at UEL and the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS. The issue can be downloaded for FREE from the link.

Nira Yuval-Davis asked to contribute to an article on refugees
for the catalogue of the artist WeiWei exhibition at the National Museum of
Prague. You can view a picture of the life boat model he built at the bottom of
this link.

Director Nira Yuval-Davis was asked to speak on Brexit
and autochthonic citizenship at the conference 'Enfranching
Citizenship' at the Royal Academy of Ireland in Ireland on 20th October
and Are fluid identities the future? at the
Cambridge Festival of Ideas on the 27th.

Please follow the link below and download the first issue of the
new journal Feminist Dissent. Two of CMRB directors – Nira Yuval-Davis and
Georgie Wemyss are members of the editorial collective and the next issue,
which is due to appear in March, will be co-edited by Nira and Nadje
Al-Ali from SOAS, based on the symposia series that CMRB has been co-running
with SOAS research centre on Gender Studies on different aspects of Gender
and Fundamentalism and is due to be out in March 2017. http://journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/feministdissent/issue/view/2

The Independent published Want to know how to kill a multicultural
society? Turn its ordinary citizens into border guards by Nira
Yuval-Davis.

The Times Higher Education published the following article by Nira
Yuval-Davis: Border studies: relevant for international relations and
‘border guard’ university staff

Nira Yuval-Davis was a keynote speaker at the Women's Conference at
the Glawej Festival in Iraqi Kurdistan (16-20 November 2015). She spoke on
the subject of 'Women. Nationalism and Resistance.'

The School of Social Sciences was launched on Monday 9th November
2015. Saskia Sassen was a keynote speaker and her talk can be viewed here.

CMRB has just published the first tranche of articles for its new
online paper series 'Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Racisms and the Question
of Palestine/Israel' edited by Nira Yuval-Davis and Jamie Hakim.
openDemocracy will be publishing an article from this series every day the
week commencing 28th September 2015. The articles can be found here.

CMRB Senior Research Fellow, Georgie Wemyss has been interviewed by
the National Maritime Museum about the importance of the recently
catalogued records of Asian crewmen on British ships during the Second
World War, on her research.

As part of CMRB's involvement in the EUBORDERSCAPES project, we
have produced a film called 'Everyday Borders' (dir. Orson Nava). It
examines the impact of the 2014 Immigration Act on British society,
exploring the way the 'border' is increasingly entering into everyday
life, which can be viewed here.